Let's Build a World: Day 4 - Cataclysmic Events

[ladyseishou]

We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

- Samuel Goldwyn



It's Day 4 for Nano Writers's Let's Build a World. Read over Day 4: Cataclysmic Events from Stephanie Bryant's 30 Days of Worldbuilding. Let's get out our notebooks and complete the exercise:

For 15 minutes, jot down some of the Really Big Land Features you want in your story and just think "what if that were made by...." Write down a couple of causes for those features and scars, and stick it all into your notebook.

You might find the following websites helpful for completing this exercise:

List of landforms - landforms organized by the processes that create them from Wikipedia.

Physical Map of the World

When Continents Collide - cool gif animation

Is your writing strong enough to move mountains, Nano Writer? Tell us about it! Share your lists and links! See you tomorrow!

Comments

[geminianeyes]

Thank you for this particular exercise. It's certainly giving me ideas.

[ladyseishou]

That's very good to hear!

I think that one of the best aspects of these exercises for me is the different perspective I get on my story idea - it becomes fuller, more "3D" to me.